Wednesday, 28 November 2012

The cast of Thunderbirds are really puppets.
The cast of Neighbours aren't.
The tooth fairy doesn't actually use your old teeth for anything.
Michelangelo wasn't a turtle.
The presenters of Blue Peter read from a script.
Eating crusts doesn't make your hair curl.
The pop charts are based on returns from one shop in Goole.
The contestants on Blind date are all unemployed actors.
Avoiding the cracks in pavements doesn't necessarily mean you won't have bad luck.

Monday, 26 November 2012

Ivy, plural ivies (Hedera),
is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody
plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe.On level ground they remain creeping,
not exceeding 5–20 cm height, but on suitable surfaces for climbing,
including trees, natural rock outcrops or man-made structures such as
quarry rock faces or built masonry and wooden structures, they can climb
to at least 30 m above the ground.

The Last Leaf

The last leaf of the year
on the cherry tree.

New Boots

Who's got new boots, then?

The Kitchen Cometh

My brother-in-law is changing over his whole kitchen
so we are having his ‘old’ appliances. (They are only old in his eyes –
they are new to us and our appliances have seen better decades; better millennia
even.)That means re-sizing cupboards,
sawing worktops, installing outside electrical fittings (don’t even ask…) plumbing;
gas installation and so on. And while all this is going on the kitchen contents
have to live somewhere – chaos reigns.

I'm a Deltiologist

Postcard 105 from Anouk 25th June 2012

Thanks to Dawn Treader I have discovered I am a deltiologist. I quote -

Deltiology
(from Greek δελτίον, deltion, diminutive of δέλτος, deltos, "writing
tablet, letter"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study and collection of
postcards. Professor Randall Rhoades of Ashland, Ohio, coined a word in 1945
that became the accepted description of the study of picture postcards. It took
about 20 years for the name to appear in the dictionary the first time.

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Our
trip to Liverpool Museum in October has provided me with enough items to keep
posting until Christmas.(Only about 32 shopping
days to Christmas – if you want the time to the second click here).

The
second floor has some traditional glass-fronted cases with a Liverpool Timeline
shown through various objects.As usual,
Partner-who-loves-tea and I played the ‘Gosh, do you remember those’ game as we
looked at the memorabilia from the 50s and 60s.

The
museum also has computer maps of old and new Liverpool and some other
fascinating computer programs that can accessed through a number of terminals.

There
is a wonderfully painted picture of Liverpool that GB and I saw in the Walker
Art Gallery a couple of years ago (I think GB may have blogged it).This close up shows the outside of the new
Museum.

This
gives some idea of the scale of the picture.

This is a carriage from the Overhead Railway or Dockers' Umbrella as it was locally known.

I remember the Overhead Railway. I rode on it with Dad a couple of times as he
came home from work on a Saturday lunch-time, having taken me to work with him.

It ran along the outside of the docks above
the Dock Road on an elevated rail about thirty feet in the air, all the way
from The Dingle to Seaforth.

Sadly in
1956 it was closed due to the discovery of structural faults. Even more sadly it was demolished the
following year.What a tremendous tourist
attraction it would make nowadays.Instead we are limited to seeing one lonely carriage in the museum.

This is the Lion Locomotive – one of the world’s
earliest surviving railway locomotives.It was built in 1838 to haul luggage trains.

About Me and my Blog

Thanks for stopping by! Would you like a cup of tea or coffee? And please, sit for a spell. If you enjoy my posts, please feel free to follow me or subscribe to my blog. This is a word verification free, family friendly blog, so everything I share here is for all ages. I am a happily married man in my late sixties who lives on the Wirral peninsula, near Liverpool, in the UK.

I'm a blogger - and nowadays that seems to be my main occupation. Rambles from My Chair is my main blog. I’m a retired local government executive - now studying how to survive a neurological disorder that gives me various problems but, hopefully, a whole new outlook on life and an increased sense of humour and perspective. There is a saying in Sweden "man måste vara frisk för att orka vara sjuk" ~ "you have to be well to cope with being ill"....

I enjoy most forms of communication and postcards are a special favourite. I used to blog as Scriptor Senex which is Latin for Old Writer but now Google only lets me post as John Edwards.

“He’s not so old. He’s just the age that he is, that’s all.” (Gerald Hammond)